Finally! I’ve been wanting to send you guys pictures for the last few weeks, but I haven’t been able to do it because I haven’t had time (Last week I didn’t have time to write a weekly email because I was working on P-Day!… I’m pretty sure I’m never going to have a real P-Day until the end of my mission because someone always needs me to do something! (So don’t expect an email every week… Sorry)
But I’m all good here in the offices. I’m liking the work because it allows me to think a little bit about how to make the mission more efficient and productive and with our mission president’s permission we might be able to implement it. Recently I was going around training a couple of zones about how to use the mission database to contact people who have requested missionary visits. We had 1,500 people that hadn’t been visited, let alone contacted! But after the training it’s gone down by the hundreds every week! So seeing the effects of our work has been cool!
Anyway, to catch up on a few things that we’ve had going on lately (But that I haven’t mentioned because I didn’t have pictures):
First, on the last P-Day before all the crazy changes happened, my district and I took some pictures with the shirts we made. They came out pretty well:
… Now I’m all by myself in the offices… Nah, just kidding!
On my first P-Day here in the offices we went to eat at a really nice restaurant and ate about 40 soles of meat! Considering that a decent meal costs about 10 soles, we spent a lot… but it was worth it!
Here I am with my order (It came with it’s own mini-grill because there was so much meat!):
Before you think that I ate it all by myself, I assure you that I shared with Jefferson, our chauffer (Yes, we have chauffers, but it’s because we often have to drive all over the mission to do various things, not because we’re rich!… Especially not after spending 40 soles in one go!)
Here’s Jefferson and Elder Primo, Elder Sánchez, Elder Castrejón, and Elder Klein (in order) (And obviously I’m over there on the end!):
Elder Castrejón and Elder Klein are my companions and Elder Primo and Elder Sánchez are the president’s assistants, but we all have P-Day together because we all live in the same house and often work together, too. It’s a lot more fun!
I suppose the last “interesting” thing is that I’ve been working with the mission phones lately because no one had been doing it for almost 6 months… That took a lot of work! But now I’m on top of it and I took a picture of all the new ones I’m going to ship out:
I’m proud of it!
See you all next week (If I have time to write, I mean…)
— Elder Schroeder